AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: specs and benchmarks

Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire sales 1 May 2012. This is GCN architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.

Power consumption is at 200 Watt.

It provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 30.44 percent of a leader's which is NVIDIA TITAN V.

General info Technical specs Memory specs Benchmarks Gaming NVIDIA equivalent Advices and comments

General info

Of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's architecture, market type and release date.

Place in performance rating

101

Architecture

GCN

Code name

Wimbledon XT

Type

Laptop

Release date

1 May 2012

Technical specs

Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines

2560

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Core clock speed

850 MHz

of 1677 (Radeon RX Vega 64 Liquid Cooling)

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

of 7 (Radeon Pro Vega 20)

Power consumption (TDP)

200 Watt

of 900 (Tesla S2050)

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Information on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop size

large

Memory specs

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type

GDDR5

Memory bus width

2x 256 Bit

of 8192 (Radeon Pro Duo)

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

of 14000

Shared memory

API support

APIs supported by Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX

11.1

Video card benchmarks performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

30.51

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

11119

3DMark Vantage Performance

31127

Game benchmarks (in FPS)

Let's see how good Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS, while overall gaming performance is a number in 0-100 range, and the older the game, the less impact it has on the overall grade.

Overall gaming performance

0.01

Games benchmarked by notebookcheck.net

Diablo III (2012)

medium / 768p

243

high / 768p

238

ultra / 1080p

194

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)

medium / 768p

high / 768p

ultra / 1080p

StarCraft 2 (2010)

medium / 768p

137

high / 768p

136

ultra / 1080p

120

Relative perfomance

Overall Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to its nearest competitors. All GPU types participate.

114.62 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M SLI

106.8 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M SLI

104.37 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M SLI

100 %

AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire

98.16 %

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile

93.76 %

AMD Radeon R9 M395X

93.73 %

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

NVIDIA equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire from NVIDIA is GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile, which is slower by 2% and lower by 4 positions in our rating.